OK so you’ve done your research have you?

I have been a cosmetic chemist for 18 years and that is a long time, long enough that some of my students were born and have grown up and become adults during the period of my life I shall later refer to as my ‘working life’. Makes me feel old.

Feeling old is one thing, feeling like the world has gone bonkers is another.

Is there anyone alive that knows the true meaning of the phrase ‘doing some research’ in the scientific context?

Does anybody care?

I spent just over ten minutes with my precious cuppatea talking to the camera on my computer about this so get to the bottom of it all.